US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on May 5 for "Systems and methods for monitoring an analyte or parameter for a patient" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,398, issued on May 5, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for monitoring an analyte or parameter for a patient" was invented by Juan Pedro Cascales Sandoval (Somerville, Mass.) and Conor L. Evans (Charlestown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system includes a probe, and a photon source configured to direct photons at the probe. The probe can emit light in response to receiving photons. The sensor system can include a photodetector configured to detect the light emitted from the probe, and a configured to cause the photon source to emit photons according to a first time-varying intensi...